He has argued the health ministry knew about the changes he was making at Ornge and never told him he had veered off course. Not looking to cloud your day but winter is knocking! No need to wait until next weekend to score sweet sales on gadgets, gear. Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
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With fraud and misappropriation of funds, detectives say they found insufficient evidence, due to lack of cooperation and documentation, to support those charges. As to breach of trust, a charge that can be laid against a public official of some sort government official, police officer, elected official, etc.
When the Liberal government set up ORNGE they effectively created a private organization to do the work that was previously done by the ministry of health. AgustaWestland did not respond to a request for comment.
Mazza did not return a call to his clinic in Mississauga. He said there is more accountability and transparency at the organization. Kevin Donovan can be reached at or kdonovan thestar. Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. All rights reserved.
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Report an error. Journalistic Standards. About The Star. At least three, including the man followed, have asked provincial investigators for permission to break that agreement. Mazza has not responded to requests for an interview for this or other Toronto Star stories. In those days, small airlines and one large helicopter firm worked on contract for the Ministry of Health. The Sunnybrook-based dispatch team called in a plane or chopper when needed.
As part of the contract, the companies had to outfit aircraft as air ambulances. Mazza hooked up for a brief time with an air ambulance firm, learning the business from inside out. By , he had met Blum, a government relations specialist with Conservative ties.
Ontario had a Conservative government at the time. The Liberals won the election in , George Smitherman became health minister and the courting began. But Orange is one of the largest telecommunications firms in the world and lawyers said they would face trademark issues. Mazza lived in Etobicoke.
His first marriage, which produced one child, Josh, had collapsed and he remarried. There are two children from that union. Mazza and his family were sporty, water skiing in the summer at the cottage, skiing in the winter. On a run called Long John, Josh crashed. Understandably, Mazza changed that day. He became even more driven, more mercurial, Blum and other insiders say. On paper, the idea seemed excellent.
Build a world-class air ambulance service and, since Ontario was short on health dollars, sell the expertise internationally, returning any profit to Ontario. Mazza, documents reveal, was only going to give back 3 per cent of gross revenue to Ontario.
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